It’s a ghost town down by the streets of the vacant lots, underneath the fusion restaurants and luxury high-rises — a neighborhood that, in its current state, has no history or proper reason to be there. It’s the responsibility of the next generation, gaping up from the bleached-clean streets, to piece together our narrative of happened along Larrabee Street all those years ago, and to figure out where to go from here.

Inevitably, your motivation to perform a task will dip at some point. What happens when motivation fades? I don't claim to have all the answers, but here’s what I try to remind myself of when I feel like giving up.

Alongside the Paris set (# 21044, reviewed in the January 29,2019 issue of TechNews), the beginning of 2019 also saw the release of another welcome addition to the LEGO Architecture Skyline series - San Francisco (set #21043).

Though expensive, this Hogwarts Castle is an impressive piece of art and history. Taking approximately twenty-six hours to build, I had a lot of fun noticing all the references, appreciating the new one-by-one arch pieces, making the stained glass window patterns, and being shocked at the so-called “illegal” building techniques LEGO is now putting in their directions.